Plan to build up your food supply just as you would a savings account. Save a little for storage each paycheck. Can or bottle fruit and vegetables from your gardens and orchards. Learn how to preserve food through drying and possibly freezing. Make your storage a part of your budget.

God our Father, Jesus, our Elder Brother and our Redeemer, and the Holy Ghost, the Testator, are perfect. They know us best and love us most and will not leave one thing undone for our eternal welfare. Should we not love them for it and honor them first?

There will always be those little minds who, out of vanity or intellectual display, will attempt to destroy faith in the very foundations of life.

I rode horseback three miles each way to get to high school, and in bad weather it was a problem sometimes to make my eight o'clock class on time. Like others, I often missed school to help on the farm, especially in the fall, until after harvest, and in the spring, during planting season.

Some men are willing to die for their faith, but they are not willing to fully live for it. Christ both lived and died for us.

The privilege of holding the priesthood, which is the power and authority to act in God's name, is a great blessing and privilege and one that carries with it equally great obligations and responsibilities.

Too often the pressure for popularity, on children and teens, places an economic burden on the income of the father, so mother feels she must go to work to satisfy her children's needs. That decision can be most shortsighted.

Satan works through human agents.

The false prophets of Communism predict a utopian society.

Husbands, recognize your wife's intelligence and her ability to counsel with you as a real partner regarding family plans, family activities, and family budgeting. Don't be stingy with your time or with your means. Give her the opportunity to grow intellectually, emotionally, and socially as well as spiritually.

I am grateful my own eternal companion served a mission in Hawaii before we were married in the Salt Lake Temple, and I am pleased that I have had three granddaughters serve full-time missions.

Communism introduced into the world a substitute for true religion. It is a counterfeit of the gospel plan.

The earth was cursed for Adam's sake. Work is our blessing, not our doom. God has a work to do, and so should we.

I love all our Father's children of every color, creed, and political persuasion.

We must be careful, as we seek to become more and more godlike, that we do not become discouraged and lose hope.

I reverence the Constitution of the United States as a sacred document. To me its words are akin to the revelations of God, for God has placed his stamp of approval on the Constitution of this land.

When our children obey the Lord and go to the temple to receive their blessings and enter into the marriage covenant, they enter into the same order of the priesthood that God instituted in the very beginning with father Adam.

The great task of life is to learn the will of the Lord and then do it.

The Lord is pleased with every effort, even the tiny, daily ones in which we strive to be more like Him.

Faith is the foundation upon which a godlike character is built. It is a prerequisite for all other virtues.

Some prideful people are not so concerned as to whether their wages meet their needs as they are that their wages are more than someone else's. Their reward is being a cut above the rest. This is the enmity of pride.

The moral code of Heaven for both men and women is complete chastity before marriage and full fidelity after marriage.

Surely no child should fear his own father - especially a priesthood father. A father's duty is to make his home a place of happiness and joy.

Wickedness never did, never does, never will bring us happiness.